I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
JAMES BALDWINYou think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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